Drug Errors Harm 1.5 Million A Year
CBS/AP) More than 1.5 million Americans are injured every year by drug errors in hospitals, nursing homes and doctor's offices, a count that doesn't even estimate patients' own medication mix-ups, says a report that calls for major steps to increase patient safety.
Topping that list: All prescriptions should be written electronically by 2010, the Institute of Medicine said. At least a quarter of all medication-related injuries are preventable, the institute concluded in the report it released Thursday.
Perhaps the most stunning finding of the report was that, on average, a hospitalized patient is subject to at least one medication error per day despite intense efforts to improve hospital care in the six years since the institute began focusing attention on medical mistakes of all kinds.
No wonder repiglikkkans want to take away the public's right to sue for medical malpractice, especially when you see how many health care conglomerates are repiglikkkan owned and operated..
One none to bright repiglikkan explained it to me this way - "if the Volvo garage screws up the brakes on your car you wouldn't expect to get 50 million dollars would you? "
I assumed he got that poor analogy from FOX or Limbaugh since both like to characterize "liberals" as Volvo drivers, but even though it was unoriginal I was forced to explain that a doctor taking your life or permanently destroying your health isn't the same as an automotive garage damaging your car, and that I didn't attach a dollar amount to life which would be very hard to do which is why a jury should determine that number on a case to case basis, and the injured or their survivors should always have their day in court.
This caused the republican, who likes to call George Bush " a real leader" to sputter, then prove he had no arguement by attacking me personally rather than of explaining and clarifying his position.
Each republican with whom I've hade contact is at least somewhat inarticulate, unable to use accurate analogy, more concerned about money than people, deeply authoritarian and a big believer in all kinds of racist, sexist, religious delusion. To man. Every one of them.
Topping that list: All prescriptions should be written electronically by 2010, the Institute of Medicine said. At least a quarter of all medication-related injuries are preventable, the institute concluded in the report it released Thursday.
Perhaps the most stunning finding of the report was that, on average, a hospitalized patient is subject to at least one medication error per day despite intense efforts to improve hospital care in the six years since the institute began focusing attention on medical mistakes of all kinds.
No wonder repiglikkkans want to take away the public's right to sue for medical malpractice, especially when you see how many health care conglomerates are repiglikkkan owned and operated..
One none to bright repiglikkan explained it to me this way - "if the Volvo garage screws up the brakes on your car you wouldn't expect to get 50 million dollars would you? "
I assumed he got that poor analogy from FOX or Limbaugh since both like to characterize "liberals" as Volvo drivers, but even though it was unoriginal I was forced to explain that a doctor taking your life or permanently destroying your health isn't the same as an automotive garage damaging your car, and that I didn't attach a dollar amount to life which would be very hard to do which is why a jury should determine that number on a case to case basis, and the injured or their survivors should always have their day in court.
This caused the republican, who likes to call George Bush " a real leader" to sputter, then prove he had no arguement by attacking me personally rather than of explaining and clarifying his position.
Each republican with whom I've hade contact is at least somewhat inarticulate, unable to use accurate analogy, more concerned about money than people, deeply authoritarian and a big believer in all kinds of racist, sexist, religious delusion. To man. Every one of them.
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